Denver Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic has become quite the player over the course of the last few seasons. However, the versatile offensive player can also lose his temper at times, which recently resulted to his ejection.

The Nuggets can ill afford to encounter any absence from Jokic at this stage of the 2018-19 regular season, and the Serbian big man knows that he must control his temper and actions on the court going forward.

“Coach talked to me,” Jokic told Nick Kosmider of The Athletic. “He talked to me and said I’m too important and I can not do that. I know I can’t do that. It’s bad of me, but you need to say something. We are not going to be, like, sheep, you know?”

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Nuggets head coach Michael Malone also knows how important it is to have the All-Star big man on the floor, and he made it a point to emphasize to the center that it won't help the team if he gets ejected.

The Nuggets lost to the Wizards, 95-90, on Monday evening after Nikola Jokic was ejected. Denver currently sits in second place in the Western Conference standings with a 51-25 record, behind only the heralded Golden State Warriors.